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The Living Days by Ananda Devi 9781999331849
RRP: $25.20$17.26A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as... -
Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 Rachel Adcock 9781472457066
RRP: $283.50$247.13Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women... -
On Poetry Jonathan Davidson 9781910367933
RRP: $20.90$15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910367933Author Jonathan DavidsonFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
The New Caribbean Folktales and Legends for the 21st Century by Roselle Thompson 9780954232535
RRP: $31.50$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954232535Author Roselle ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Eagle PublishersPublisher Eagle PublishersWeight(grams) 222g -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody 9780199215584
RRP: $60.88$44.52This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his... -
Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction by Natania Meeker
RRP: $62.98$56.07Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life... -
Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing by Lara Farina 9780312295004
RRP: $94.48$94.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology by Theresa Bane 9781476681771
RRP: $31.48$26.36From the earliest days of oral history to the present, the vampire myth persists among mankind's deeply-rooted fears. This encyclopedia, with entries ranging from "Abchanchu" to "Zmeus," includes nearly 600 different species of historical and... -
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: $20.98$14.36A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves,... -
Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595 by Dr Ruth R. Lunney 9780719083228
RRP: $41.98$38.01Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes 9780571221387
RRP: $63.00$43.47At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris 9780312147679
RRP: $48.28$32.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147679Author Victor BockrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408g -
King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations by Arthur W. Frank 9780192846723
RRP: $39.88$34.27A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'. As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how... -
The Miner by Natsume Soseki
RRP: $23.08$15.96From the great Meiji writer Natsume Soseki, The Miner is an absurdist tale about the indeterminate nature of human personality. 'It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be... -
Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick by Gabriel McKee 9780761826736
RRP: $98.70$85.83From his earliest stories, Philip K. Dick's science fiction had strong religious and philosophical themes. In Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, Gabriel McKee gives an overview of Dick's religious experiences and his attempts at... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle 9780521682541
RRP: $56.68$48.72The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English... -
Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography by Enzo Traverso 9780231203982
RRP: $193.20$150.80Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor... -
A History of American Literature Richard Gray (University of Essex, UK) 9781405192286
RRP: $77.60$70.90Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most... -
Canto General by Pablo Neruda 9788437609300
RRP: $71.38$36.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437609300Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 655Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams) 467g -
How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene by Travis Holloway
RRP: $23.08$20.69Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts, but by the near universal disappearance of shared... -
Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 3: Expressionism and Epic Theatre by J. L. Styan 9780521296304
RRP: $69.28$59.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cicero Philippic II: A Selection Christopher Tanfield (Classics Teacher, South Hampstead High School, UK) 9781350010239
RRP: $37.78$34.23This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Philippic II sections 44-50 (... viri tui similis esses) and 78 (C. Caesari ex Hispania redeunti...)-92, and the A-Level (Group 2)... -
The Psychology of Art by L. S. Vygotskii 9780262720052
$74.84Vygotsky opened up an original field in the science of psychology, based on the sociohistorical theory of the nature of man's consciousness. This work, written more than forty years ago and now translated into English for the first time, approaches the... -
Genre John Frow 9781138020580
RRP: $50.38$44.77This second edition of John Frow's Genre offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the area. Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture, but it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in... -
The Art of Poetry: Aqa Love Poems Through the Ages, Post 1900 Poems by Neil Bowen 9780995467101
RRP: $25.18$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467101Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 254g -
Troilus and Cressida by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $18.88$17.26From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy of love and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Troilus and Cressida in performance,... -
The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move by Ann Rigney 9780198806400
$81.38Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was once a household name, but is now largely forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of reference for cultural memory and collective identity in the nineteenth century, and why it no... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound by Ira B. Nadel
RRP: $71.38$61.45This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars, who together reflect diverse but complementary approaches to the study of Ezra Pound's poetry and prose. They consider the poetics, foreign influences, economics, politics and... -
James Herbert - The Authorised True Story by Craig Cabell 9781782196709
$23.00For almost 40 years, Herbert was Britain's most popular horror author. With sales f over 50 million copies, he carved a niche in quality bestselling fiction all of his own. Famous for his Rats trilogy and The Fog, he broke away from the cut-and-thrust... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780674991378
RRP: $52.40$49.90An epistemological diptych.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that... -
Faust, Part I by Goethe
RRP: $20.98$15.14Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so... -
After The End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse by James Berger 9780816629336
RRP: $44.08$38.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816629336Author James BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness by Theri Alyce Pickens 9781478004042
RRP: $41.98$37.40In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Theri Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such... -
Ehud's Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution by James Holstun 9781859844076
RRP: $60.88$53.45In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below."A work brimming with... -
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 9780812969290
RRP: $29.40$19.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969290Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Modern LibraryPublisher Modern LibraryWeight(grams) 200g -
Thomas Pynchon: Demon in the Text by Albert Rolls
RRP: $41.98$40.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224555Author Albert RollsFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root -
The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories by Marcel Proust
RRP: $35.68$23.67'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was... -
The First Wash of Spring by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $36.75$26.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246251Author George Mackay BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish 9780198129998
$62.20In a succession of provocative and wide-ranging chapters, Stanley Fish explores the rational basis of our literary, legal, and psychoanalytic interpretations. He argues that while we can never separate our judgements from the context in which they are... -
Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon 9780521092586
RRP: $79.78$69.24Caroline Spurgeon's pioneer study of the imagery of Shakespeare's plays shows how much light can be thrown on Shakespeare's own mind and thought and on the themes and characters of the plays by a detailed examination of his imagery. At the same time she...